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If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

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Piers Anthony
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
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Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
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The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
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Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
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Information is power. --Humfrey
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I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.
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If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?
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No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
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SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.
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In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
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At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
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We are all creatures of our ancestry! There is no right and wrong, objectively.
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Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!
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Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
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When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
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That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.
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She looked around. Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You! And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. And you. She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. But not you, she decided, encountering the zombie.
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As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad editors won't even read them.
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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